English: A fragment of Roman ceramic briquetage, a bar fragment, probably daitng to c. AD 250-410. The bar is sub-rectangular in plan, with relatively abraded breaks, and rectangular in cross section, measuring 43.3mm by 42.0mm. The fabric of the bar is consistent with other briquetage fragments in the same assemblage, being oxidised and with an extremely abundant, coarse organic temper, varying in colour between brick red, lilac and buff-white; the variation in colour caused by chlorides in the salt bleaching of the iron oxides in the clay.

Total weight: 133.47g.

A number of salterns are known on the Somerset levels, and the fabric seen here closely resembles that found on other sites (cf. that from the nearby Pyde Drove, nr. Woolavington, in Hughes, Payne & Rainbird 2017), the saltern mounds at the above site were associated with ceramic sherds dating to the later Roman period (ibid: table 1). This record is a small sample of a larger assemblage which has been disturbed by Badgers, see also SOM-4826B1, as well as a collection of ceramic sherds: SOM-559298, SOM-56B5A1, SOM-56E0C1.